An evening designed to allow you to explore the wonders of science. Wander through classrooms filled with challenges- create the longest fibre optic fibre, use a laser cutter to cut your own key chains, use microscopes to see things too small for the human eye and loads more. Each classroom is set up to show…
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Minecraft Contraptions
Jump into Minecraft with us and learn how to use Redstone, Minecraft’s version of electricity, as we power some wacky contraptions. We’ll be hosting this Minecraft event in person at the Ivanhoe Library and Cultural Hub and jumping online together on our server. You’ll need to own a copy of Minecraft and have your own…
ANU Cybernetics: Speech Recognition Technology
People’s ability to use their chosen language is critical for human dignity and the general wellbeing of society. Language facilitates meaningful interactions with one another, enabling expression, and the transmission of history and traditions. And language allows us to construct our future. But what if the technology we use to construct this future doesn’t acknowledge…
Real Fossil Dig
Dig a real fossil out and take it home. Our activity offers people of all ages the opportunity to carefully extract a real fossil from a matrix. With the use of some simple tools you can dig until you see a sign of something different and you then brush and dig until it comes loose…
Immersive Mindfulness: can real life compare with digital worlds?
Immersive technologies and virtual worlds have long been a fixture of science fiction; it conjures up memories of books and movies where all of humanity are living life remotely or via surrogate robots. But what digital world would you create to enhance contemplative experiences? Guided meditations in virtual nature environments are being used to aid…
Weird Science
Is it real? Or is it just plain weird!? The world around you is even stranger than you think. Explore the wacky side of science with these fun experiments at the Adelaide City Library. Cluck like a chicken with a plastic cup, or learn how to tell your soapy side from your sour side with…
Gemstone Dig
Dig for real gemstones and take them home. Our activity offers people of all ages the opportunity to carefully extract polished semi-precious gemstones from a matrix. With the use of some simple tools you dig and brush until you extract all the stones. Once you clean up your find you can try to…
Science Gallery Melbourne – SWARM
Part exhibition, part experiment, SWARM uncovers the very essence of collective behaviour and questions what drives us to be social. From nanobots to native bees, superorganisms to social media, is it better to be part of a pack or go it alone? There are more of us now than ever before – 7.9 billion people…
Tech Talks: Inspiring Women in Science
Please join us at the Adelaide City Library for our ever popular Tech Talk series! Held in partnership with the Australian Institute of Machine Learning (AIML), this month’s theme is ‘Inspiring Women in Science’. This powerful panel session will bring together four inspiring women from different science fields to share their journeys, perspectives and examine the…
Meet Australia’s Megafauna with a MAGNT Palaeontologist
Join Dr Adam Yates and Dr Sam Arman, MAGNT’s Palaeontologists for a walk through time, Q & A, and ground your Prehistoric Picnic experience in science. See the full skeleton of the Thunderbird Dromornis stirtoni in the Transformations Gallery, touch fossil bones on display, learn how these fossils are excavated from the Alcoota Scientific Reserve,…